Partners
The Finance Association
EPFL's Student Association for Finance & Financial Markets
We connect students interested in finance with the tools, knowledge, and industry exposure needed to understand modern financial markets.
The Finance Association (TFA) is a student association at EPFL focused on financial markets, quantitative methods, and the financial industry.
Direct engagement with market data, price dynamics and the real operational constraints of the financial industry.
Development of quantitative finance skills — statistical modelling, time series analysis, portfolio construction, risk management.
Production of documented research papers, formalised presentations and analytical materials meeting industry communication standards.
Building a lasting network between financial institutions and EPFL's quantitative talent.
A partnership with TFA provides structured access to EPFL’s quantitative talent pipeline and creates opportunities for thought leadership, recruiting, and applied research engagement.
Presence on the EPFL campus, an institution ranked among the top 10 technical universities in the world. Association of the partner brand with an internationally recognised environment of scientific excellence.
Direct contact with students and young researchers trained in mathematics, physics, computer science and data science — the profiles most sought after by quantitative desks, risk management teams and research departments.
Opportunities to speak at workshops, conferences and seminars organised by TFA. These formats allow partners to share their expertise, present their research challenges and reinforce their intellectual positioning before a qualified audience.
Access to recruitment-oriented interaction formats — career presentations, technical sessions, targeted networking — enabling the identification and engagement of the most relevant candidates ahead of traditional recruitment processes.
Financial sponsorship
Support for events, professional analytical tools, and market data access to ensure high-quality infrastructure.
Mentors
Industry professionals willing to review research work per cycle and provide external methodological feedback.
Speakers
Experts to run technical workshops, thematic talks, and experience-sharing sessions.
Recruiting formats
Collaboration on structured recruiting activations (presentations, technical sessions, targeted networking).
Partners
Several institutions have already collaborated with TFA in the context of events, technical sessions or recruitment formats. These collaborations demonstrate the association's ability to meet the expectations of recognised actors in the financial industry.
Quant trading firm collaboration (details to be confirmed and completed).
Optiver has participated in events organised by TFA, sharing its expertise in quantitative modelling and risk management with the association's members.
BCV collaborated with TFA in the context of an event organised at EPFL. Its CEO, Pascal Kiener, spoke at a conference attended by around a hundred participants.
TFA is organised into four complementary divisions, each contributing to the association's overall mission. This modular structure allows for specialisation of skills while ensuring the overall coherence of activities.
The association's central division. Responsible for the design, development and validation of systematic quantitative strategies. Coordinates the research pipeline from initial hypothesis through to the formalised presentation of results.
Organisation of conferences, workshops and interaction formats with the financial industry. Management of partner relations and coordination of sponsorship activities. Primary interface with external institutions.
Production of editorial content, management of the podcast and dissemination of research outputs. Ensures TFA's institutional visibility within academic and professional communities.
Development and maintenance of the technical infrastructure — data access, computing environments, backtesting tools. Guarantees the reliability and reproducibility of analyses produced by the research division.
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